The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm Book 17 of #20booksofsummer20
To Be A Machine by Mark O’Connell #readingirelandmonth20
The Naked Irish by Clare O’Dea plus giveaway! #readingirelandmonth20
Irish Non-Fiction titles to look out for in 2020 #readingirelandmonth20
No 506 The Moon’s A Balloon by David Niven
who knows if the moon’s a balloon coming out of a keen city in the sky–filled with pretty people? (and if you and I should get into it if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty people EE Cummings, The Moon’s…
No 520 Hotel California by Barney Hoskyns (Book 8 of #20booksofsummer)
You know I’d go back there tomorrow But for the work I’ve taken on Stoking the star-maker machinery Behind the popular song Free Man in Paris, Joni Mitchell Despite a subtitle that’s enough to put even the hardened music fan off, Barney Hoskyns’ exploration of the Los Angeles singer-songwriter scene of the early 1970s…
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Notes to Self by Emilie Pine for #readingirelandmonth19
No 545 Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
First published in 1968, Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a collection of essays, largely about California and published mainly within the pages of The Saturday Evening Post across the previous decade. Fifty years on, what is most striking about the collection is the writing, which is vivid and alive. The style of New Journalism…
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